The Egypt in My Looking Glass

Twenty-five years after their hellish emigration - thirty from their famous father's exodus - a sister and her brothers hear his voice again. All three have long since made it in the States despite - maybe because of - his abandonment. Forced by his own divorce to question everything Vlad reels and frolics to forget himself - and learn to live again. Skirt-chasing author Mark seething with writer's block commits himself to marry by a verbal slip. Alla's precocious children prod her to examine who she is and why. A sleazy cousin - Tolik hopeless Brighton product - is about to score his one big hit again. His brother Boris now religious struggles to transcend his past. A family get-together threatens to ignite their old resentments. Edouard Yablonskiy freshly minted dissident has one last chance to make amends. His three grown children now must choose - to exit their own Egypt and forgive or let the past demand their satisfaction.